Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."
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My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. Go to Quote / Comment
It mattering not how beautiful you were, Or how beloved above all else that dies. Go to Quote / Comment
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over. Go to Quote / Comment
It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways. Go to Quote / Comment
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. Go to Quote / Comment